I've been on a mission the last few months to get my tools, tractor and outdoor equipment parts, electrical work stuff and just about everything I own in some kind of order. It amazed me to discover just how many feet of extension cords I have once they are all together. Over 1000'. All 10 & 12 gauge except for a few short 14 gauge. And that not counting the 16 gauge stuff used for Christmas lights only. I also have about 100' of 6-4 cord for the two 3 phase electric heaters that I rent out for temp construction heat.

Cleaned my garage after working on my grader two days ago and found 2 bran new tools still in boxes I bought last year and forgot about, and 3 Lowe's bags of gate hinges, Dermal bits, and drill bits. My next day off I'm going to clean the benches and see what I find.

I bet I have 1000', some in 8/3 , but only 50' of that stuff , then off to 10/ 3, 100 '. Then 12/3, gawd only knows, except that it it takes up a ton of rack space along side the 14/3 on the wall right next to all the crap cords I need to fix! I got 150 ' of 12/3 going to my temp shed, LOL. ( and yes, I measured voltage drop at the length, and it looks fine....)

Ken, I agree, cordage is good, except when 'yer tripping on it , or it trips out :-)

I smell like gasoline !! Just cleaned up this brand new used once 12 gauge 50' cord. It seems that someone borrowed it on a job site and pulled it through a freshly tarred roof. It's been sitting in a bucket for over a year. Just poured a little gas in and it cleaned the tar off, but stained the yellow.

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I've got 2 of these 50 amp power distribution boxes too, they get set up on bigger job sites. That I haven't had for a while.